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Proving that the facts didn’t matter when the mission was to destroy President Trump and right-wing media, CNN host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo raged at folks who cited reports and intelligence sources that suggested the coronavirus might have escaped a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Monday segment on Cuomo PrimeTime was filled with hyperbole, smears, and lies against those people, but Cuomo himself had once had “breaking news” reporting those same claims.
At the top of the segment, Cuomo came back from a commercial break and claimed that the only reason Trump was holding China responsible for the pandemic was that “his puppy-dog-puppets and his cronies came after China.”
As part of his argument, he played back-to-back clips from April 14’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight (click “expand”):
TUCKER CARLSON (April 14): The Chinese may have unleashed a global pandemic on the rest of us. [Transition] Funded in part by you, by U.S. taxpayers, through the National Institutes of Health.
CUOMO: Liked him better with the bowtie. Then it got an echo from his buddies in Congress.
REP. MATT GAETZ (R-FL) (April 14): The NIH gives this $3.7 million grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. [Transition] I’ve called on Secretary Azar to immediately halt this grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“China bad, China scary, China make virus to kill us,” Cuomo declared in a caveman-like voice, mocking Carlson and Congressman Gaetz. But that was a lie. They never said China made the virus. Carlson has been very specific in saying that the information does not suggest that. (That first clip was also deceptively edited).
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